Towards a genealogy of urban shopping: types, adaptations and resilience

Abstract

This typological account of the urban morphology of shopping presents a diagrammatic genealogy of urban retail types from traditional markets, streets and plazas through various adaptations and mutations into the contemporary shopping mall and power centre. This genealogy shows an increased car-dependency, privatized and centralized control, and disintegration from urban life. Many cities have been transformed by contemporary retail types that are less walkable, equitable, productive and resilient than those from which they were derived. The challenge lies in the invention of new retail types with potential for reintegration into more resilient forms of urban development.

Los centros comerciales como paisajes globales en la reconfiguración de los espacios público-privados

“…Por esta razón, son más acertadas sus definiciones como espacios cuasipúblicos (Rochminska, 2017), pseudopúblicos (Cvetković y Lazarević, 2016) o semipúblicos (Augé, 1996). En definitiva, se trata de lugares de acceso público bajo control privado (Rao et al, 2017), con características de áreas públicas sin serlo.…”

“…consumo (Cvetković y Lazarević, 2016). Los centros comerciales crean un facsímil de la ciudad tradicional con sus calles, mercados y plazas (Rao et al, 2017). Las tiendas, los escaparates, las luces altas, las fuentes, el mobiliario urbano y los jardines interiores representan un intento de reproducir las calles comerciales de la ciudad tradicional compacta dentro de un espacio privado cerrado (Gharbi y Knight, 2017).…”

Spatial Configurations for The Revitalization of a Traditional Market: The Case of Yukgeori Market in Cheongju, South Korea

“…Retail markets can be categorized according to the degree of planning [23,24], ownership, control and spatial configuration [12,25]. In Korea, traditional markets have formed and evolved in an unplanned way, under fragmented ownership, whereas modern markets have been created in a planned manner, often under single private ownership.…”

“…Retail types can be categorized by this spatial configuration and presented as diagrammatic descriptions to illuminate the interrelation of the sociality, spatiality, and economy of retailing [12]. Space syntax methodology offers objective and quantitative descriptions of the spatial configuration in addition to the diagrammatic descriptions [7,8].…”

Resilient Forms of Shopping Centers Amid the Rise of Online Retailing: Towards the Urban Experience

“…I define them based on a morphological typology: here, a 'type' does not refer to an 'archetype' that can be replicated in different contexts. Rather, it is shown by a diagram depicting something that works in general while still being geared toward the particularity of each instance [43][44][45]; in such a diagram, the spatial arrangement of shops is able to imply the ways in which a shopping center 1) operates economically and 2) influences the production of urban public life [44]. The 'main street' is largely derived from the 'pedestrian street', where a pedestrian flow is lined by various shops and is centered on a street intersection.…”